𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐀 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐓𝐖𝐎.
All sentences are taken from different books from Phillipa Gregory, specially her series about the historical fiction setting of the war of roses and the tudors era. Change names, locations, pronouns and nouns as you see fit for your own liking. Some of these have slight foul language or involve insuation of sexual situations. Please beware. This is part two. (part one).
You are my joy. You are worth tens of thousands.
The art of happiness is being content with what you have.
Bless you my daughter, and may you remain pure in heart and get your desires.
I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight.
Ah, my dear, you are a good wife. You are my beauty. You are my only love.
Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right.
Life is long, and if a woman survives, she can take her pleasures one way or another.
My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he loves you.
This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.
Last time I danced in these rooms it was the Christmas feast and I was wearing a dress of silk.
I have the Sight, I should have seen it all, but some things are too dark to forsee.
When a country is at war, cousin against cousin, brother against brother, no boy is safe.
People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown.
Good God, I could take you in my arms right now.
There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier.
A troubadour to a distant mistress.
Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her.
The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here.
We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne.
Her confidence is extraordinary, her impertinence unforgivable, her words terribly true.
I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.
She doesn't realize yet though men go to war it is the women who suffer--perhaps more than anyone.
They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.
We are Plantagenets - we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.
One little boy, and he a bastard.
The queen sees me coming, turns toward us and waits, with a killer's patience, for me to reach the chancel steps.
I am the daughter of a water goddess. I am a woman with water in her veins and power in her breeding.
I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won’t walk back.
Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.
I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny.
I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.
Affection is not important to you, nor to me. You want power Margaret, power and wealth; and so do I.
A woman of sense would marry only for the improvement of her family. Only a lustful fool dreams every night of a marriage of love.
All this is always for nothing.
Her heart has to break and her spirit has to break if she is to be any use to her family.
Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.
Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.
It's not an easy dance she's leading.
You look as if you would eat me up.
I cannot think how to sate my desire for you. I think I will have to keep you prisoner here and eat you up in little cutlets, day after day.
But you would not get out till you were with child.
It is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace.
When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.
Jane had gone to pray for the dead queen, Anne would dance on her grave.
I have a longing for you, Lady Elizabeth Grey, that I have never felt for any woman before.
Come to me, I beg you, come to me. It could be my last wish. Will you come to me tonight?
I cannot be your mistress. I would rather die than dishonor my name. I cannot bring that shame on my family.
This is my marriage, and I want my wife in my bed.
Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.
I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored.
What if the king is killed in battle?
I have loved you honorably as a knight should do his lady, and I have loved you passionately as a man might a woman.
I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown.
It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.
He was such a happy boy, and happiness is not memorable.
I have a right to you, as your betrothed husband.
He has to marry a princess.
You have married a man who is going to die in his bed, preferably after making love to the most beautiful woman in England.
I will make sure that the most beautiful woman in your eyes is always me.
If you hate a woman, the first thing you destroy is her reputation.
Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.
Where have I offended you?
And now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.
She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful.
And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England.
My chamber. Come at once.
It seems that we have to be married.
So now we are going to consummate our betrothal.
Let’s dance for the Queen of the May!
My mother does not need your good opinion.
If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroyed.
From the moment she could talk she had been taught to guard her tongue.
I gave my womanhood to you. Tell me, in what way have I offended you? What have I ever done which was displeasing?
But don’t run too fast. Remember he has to catch you.
Nobody in this world will ever call me Mrs. Fool.
You can always tell a pretty girl by the way she walks. A pretty girl walks like she owns the world.
I thought that our marriage vows had moved your heart. I thought that you were resting your head on my shoulder for affection. Fool that I am.
I adore your hair, I like to see it loose.
I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise.
Because I dare not look at you, because if I did, every man and woman at court would sell at that in my eyes.
Because I can't sleep for thinking of you. Because I burn up with desire for you.
You’re a girl from the House of Lancaster. You cannot fall in love with the heir to the House of York unless he is king victorious.
Child, you cannot change a king, you can only make him laugh.
What will happen when I am old and I can dance no more?
She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.
The queen is right. The queen is always right.
I’m not a girl, afraid of the unknown, I am a woman; I can face fear, I can walk towards it.
And we hardly ever speak of her. It is as if we cannot bring ourselves to speak of her as dead.
A lady will find her defenders. The men around you will speak for you if needs be.
She can speak three languages, but she can tell the truth in none of them.
She never thought when she overthrew a queen that thereafter all queens would be unsteady.
What if I don’t want an unwilling bridegroom, a pretender to the crown, who won his throne through disloyalty and betrayal?
His is a rule of terror. He makes us afraid of imaginary enemies so we don’t guard ourselves against him and against our government.
